Display-tray.



PATENTED JUNE 20, 1905.

J. H. SMITH.

DISPLAY TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED N0v.1z, 1903.

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ATTORNEYS No. 792,938. PATENTBD JUNE 20, 1905. J. H. SMITH.

DISPLAY TRAY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV.12, 1903.

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JAMES HENRY SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY-TRAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of' Letters Patent No. 792,938, dated June20, 1905.

Application {iled November 12,1903. Serial No. 180,844.

Beit known that I, J AMES HENRY SMITH, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in thecounty of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedDisplay- Tray, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to store-furniture; and its object is to provide anew and improved display-tray for containing and neatly displayingunderwear, hosiery, and like'articles, and'also supporting ticketsindicating the names, prices, and other legends pertaining to the goodsdisplayed, the tickets being removably held on the tray to allow ofreplacing the tickets by others when changing the articles to bedisplayed.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations ofthe same, as will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointedout in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specilication, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improvement. Fig. Q- is anenlarged cross-section of the same on the linev 2 2 of Fig. 7. Fig. 3 isa sectional plan View of the head on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is asectional side elevation of the same on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5is a similar View of the same on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is alike view of the same on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2, and Fig. 7 is asectional side elevation of the improvement on the line 7 7 of Fig. 2.

The body of the display-tray consists of a bottom A, sides B and Bl, ahead C, and a foot D, and in order to form the body into severalcompartments I provide a longitudinal partition E, fixed to the bottomA, the head (l, and the foot D, and in the sides of the said partition Eand. on the inner faces of the sides B and B are formed vertical groovesfor the reception of the ends of transverse partitions F to divide thebody, say, into four compartments, as indicated in full and dotted linesin Fig. 1. Now by removing any one of the partitions F the correspondingside of the body forms a large compartment extending from the head tothe foot and from one side tothe fixed longitudinal partition E, so thatunderwear and like goods of larger sizes can be readily displayed in thesaid compartment, while the compartments adjacent to this largecompartment are somewhat smaller for displaying, say, hosiery or thelike. If desired, however. both partitions F may be removed to providetwo large compartments for displaying large goods, as above mentioned.

The sides B and B and the fixed partition E are provided with supports Gfor supporting false bottoms H in a manner more fully described in theLetters Patent of the United States No. 731,964, granted to me June 23,1903, so that further description of this particular construction andthe use thereof is not deemed necessary.

The head C of the body is extended a considerable distance above thesides B and B and the longitudinal partition E, as plainly illustratedin the drawings, and in the extended portion of the head and at one sidethereof are formed upper and lower chambers I and Il for containingtickets J to give the name of the goods, price thereof, theweight, orother legends pertaining to the goods displayed in the compartmentbelow, and the said chambers I are formed with entrance-slits I2,leading from the chambers to the top of the head, so that thecorresponding tickets for these chambers can be inserted through theentranceslits from the top of the head. The lowermost chambers I have asingle entrance-slit I3 on the outer side of the head C, as plainlyillustrated in Fig. 2, so that the corresponding tickets can be shovedin through the said entrance-slit one after the other, it beingunderstood, however, that for each ticketa front opening is provided,somewhatless in size than the corresponding chamber, so as to displayfrom thefront only the particular legend printed or otherwise providedfor on the.

ticket. The bottom of the entrance-slit I3 is somewhat above the bottomof the slit I to form an abutment for the outer end of the ticket toprevent the latter from sliding out of the slit accidentally. When it isdesired to remove a ticket from the lowermost chamber I', it isnecessary for the operator to lift the outer end suficiently to pass theticket over the abutment and through the slit I3 to the outside. Asillustrated in Fig. 2, the middle ticket in the lower chamber I may bedropped in through the middle upper chamber I, an entrance-slit IA1being for this purpose provided between the chamber I and the middleupper chamber I. In this case it is neccssary that the lower middleticket J be somewhat less in width than the upper middle ticket, so asto leave a bottom support for the upper middle ticket when forming theentrance-slit It. In the other side of the head C chambers I5 and I forreceiving tickets J are formed in the manner of the middle chambers Iand I', as above described---that is, the chamber I is somewhat widerthan the chamber I6 and has its entrance-slit I7 leading to the top ofthe head C, while the entrance-slit Is of the chamber I leads into thebottom of the chamber I5, so as to permit of sliding the lower ticket Jinto position in the chamber I by way of the chamber I5 and then placingthe upper. ticket J through the slit I7 into the chamber I5.

In order to make the chambers in the manner described, I prefer toconstruct the head, or rather the upper portion thereof, of threesections, as plainly indicated in Figs. 3 to 7, inclusive, the backsection C being solid, the middle section C2 forming the side walls forthe compartments, and the front section C3 having the openings leadingto the chambers, so as to display the names printed on the tickets J andJ/ to parties viewing the displaytray from the front.

From the upper end of the head C extends rearwardly ahorizontally-disposed shelf K, resting on suitable brackets K. attachedto the back of the head C. This shelf K is very convenient for thesalesman to use as a writing-desk in making out sales-slips and the likeon selling the goods fromthe display-tray.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the chambers for receiving thetickets are arranged within the head-that is, between the front and rearfaces thereof-so as to form no undesirable and unsightly pockets orprojections at the front face of the head, and, furthermore, readyaccess is had by way of the entrance-slits to the said chambers to allowof placing thetickets in position or to permit of removing the ticketsfrom the chambers whenever the goods are changed or different legendsare desired to be displayed at the head of the correspondingcompartments. x

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent l. A display-tray provided with a head having aticket-receiving chamber arranged between the front and rear faces ofthe head, the chamber being provided in its front wall with an openingfor the display of the ticket, the chamber also having a slit leading toan edge of the head, for the insertion of the ticket, the bottom of theslit extending somewhat above the bottom of the chamber, to form aretaining-abutment for the ticket, as set forth.

2. A display-tray provided with a compartment-body having a headextended above the said body, and ticket-receiving chambers in the saidhead, one above the other and extending between the front and rear facesof the head, the chambers having front openings and the upper chamberhaving an entrance-slit leading to the top of the head, and the lowerchamber having an entrance-slit leading to the side of the head, as setforth.

3. A display-tray provided with a compartment-body having a headextended above the said body, and ticket-receiving chambers in the saidhead, between the front and rear faces thereof, the chambers havingfront openings and being located one above the other, the upper chamberhaving an entrance-slit leading to the top of the head and the lowerchamber having an entrance-slit leading to the bottom of the upperchamber, as set forth.

4E. A display-tray provided with a compartment-body having a headextended above the said body, and ticket-receiving chambers in the saidhead, between the front and rear faces thereof, the chambers havingfront openings and being located one above the other, the upper chamberhaving an entrance-slit leading to the top of the head and the lowerchamber having an entrance-slit leading to the bottom of the upperchamber, and the said entranceslit of the lower chamber being less inlength than the upper chamber, as set forth.

5. A display-tray having a head projecting above the sides of the trayand formed of a solid back section, an apertured front section, and anintermediate section spacing the back and front sections and formingtherewith ticket-receiving chambers arranged one above the other, theupper chambers having an entrance-slit leading ,from the top of the headand the lower chambers, an entrance-slit leading from the side of saidhead, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses. i

JAMES HENRY SMITH.

Vitnesses:

THEO. G. Hos'rER, EVERARD B. MARSHALL.

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